UNDERSTANDING PREJUDICE - THE IMPLICIT TEST

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   georgie ~ 18 months ago

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   I'm someone who would say "I'm not consciously racist or prejudiced. I try to challenge stereotypes and to dispel myths and assumptions about all cultural groups. I attempt to treat others with respect, understanding and acceptance for their unique worldview. I celebrate diversity in all it's forms."
   
   Saying all that, I still accept that I am unconsciously prejudiced and occasionally, that unconscious prejudice slips out as conscious discrimination. The best I can do is to recognize it when it happens, allow others to point it out to me and keep my defensiveness in check, and learn to challenge my own assumptions.
   
   I'm a White American woman. I took the test and scored a "slightly automatic preference for White People". If I needed any proof of my unconscious prejudice, it's right there.
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   Loves Bloc Party ~ 18 months ago

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   im going to take it again because the first time it wasnt conclusive - i had a few x's
   
   i do think i had a similiar result though
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   snak ~ 18 months ago

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   Here's an interesting thing. I know that humanity evolved in Africa. The basis of my proclaimed non-prejudice is that the ancestors of each and every one of us, were black - which makes racial prejudice totally pointless.
   
   I too scored "slightly automatic preference for White People" and I'm really not sure how, but I can attribute that to the same 'group' thing that pervades everything we do.
   
   Football/Baseball team rivalry, our religion versus your religion, our club versus your club - we have these 'automatic' 'group' things as a holdover from when meeting another tribe could indeed end up with yours being wiped out. In a world where centres of poulation were widely spaced, strangers were most often enemies. We evolved this way, we can't help it.
   
   A friend of mine (now dead) once said 'If women are equal, how come there has to be a law that says so?' Don't dismiss it as a flippant wit used to demonstrate 'man's' so-called superiority. Think about it.
   
   From the dawn of humanity, to the aspirations of today, we have all travelled the road together. Men and women, black people and white people, tall people and short people. Looking back, we've come a long way but there is further to go - and in this ever-smaller, ever more populated world, the only way we can survive, is if we all go together. After all, the chicken-egg-chicken-egg thing started with an egg. Fish laid eggs before chickens evolved (from an egg). And, we all, every black, white, male, female, tall, short person evolved from the ultimate, same, egg.
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   Big Al ~ 18 months ago

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   I consider myself to be liberal and fair. I was a bit worried considering everything that has been said about this test that I might end up testing "badly". Well, guess what:
   
   "Your Result: Your data suggest little to no automatic preference between European American and African American."
   
   That's the result of my one and only go at the "test". I'm very happy about that!
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   AdGuy

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   This is my two cents...
   
      
   Hey you know AdGuy always gets the last word! ;)